What A Thousand Pities It Is That P. T. Barnum
is no more, for what an advertisement that great master of reclame has missed in the two portly volumes of Autobiography (Knopf, 42s.) which Mr. Bryan edits, but which, however,......
Dr. Saleeby Tells In Sunlight," A Journal Of Light And
Truth," of the Smoke Abatement Act of last year. To him it seems " a miserable triumph," in that, while it provides for the abatement of factor; smoke, it leaves the problem of......
Mr. H. Avray Tipping, In The Second Volume Of The
third period of English Homes (Country Life, £3 3s.), sketches the history and describes the architecture of thirty of the best examples of Late Tudor and Early Stuart houses.......
This Week's Books
LET us commend most heartily to employers and workmen alike Mr. H. B. Butler's admirable report on Industrial Relations in the United States (P. S. King. 2s 6d.). Mr. Butler has......
General Knowledge Competition
TI1E prize of one guinea which the Editor offers weekly for the best thirteen General Knowledge Questions (with answers) is awarded to Rev. G. S. Richardson for the following:—......
Mr. A. L. Hayward, Who Has Already Edited Ned Ward's
London Spy, now brings forward another specimen of out- at-elbows seventeenth-century journalism in selections from Tom Brown's Amusements, Serious and Comical (Routledge,......
An Entertaining And Reliable Book About The Country...
one is passing adds considerably to the pleasures of any holiday afoot, and in the West Highlands of Scotland especially, if one is alone, and unfamiliar with the lie of the......
Under The Somewhat Clumsy Title Of The Plan Of The
Educational Colonies Associations (Kasimbazar Institute, Cal- cutta) Captain Petavel, who is Lecturer on the Poverty Problem in Calcutta University, outlines a scheme to......
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